Dear S to the B,
I noticed that you always have an
extra plug socket open under your
desk. Isn't there something cool you
could plug in there?
Simcity,
Justin Corcoran, MASS

STRONG BAD: Awww, I hate getting these mass emails! {typing} REMOVE ME! UNSUBSCRIBE! TAKE ME OFFA LIST! {clears screen, continues typing} Well HUGE to the DORK, your timing couldn't be more perfect, as I just received my new electric boots in the mail today. Check out these features.

{Strong Bad stops typing and produces a box of 'Lectric Boots.}

STRONG BAD: No fewer than 8 lights flashing at any given time. Whisper quiet, and, uh, check out that guy dancing with that hot girl. That's gonna be me at the club, and the hot girl will be The Cheat— er, I mean, an actual hot girl. {speaking as the guy on the box} Hey there, fruit pie...the magician. Wanna dance? {speaking as the girl on the box} Yes, I would like to be your girlfriend based solely on your awesome boots!

{Strong Bad sets the box on his desk. We pull back and see that Strong Bad is wearing the electric boots, with The Cheat under the desk near the empty socket.}

STRONG BAD: All right, The Cheat, let's do this.

THE CHEAT:{The Cheat noises}

{The Cheat plugs in the boots, causing the lights on the boots to come on and a loud, vacuum-cleaner-like humming to start. The Cheat puts his hands over his ears.}

STRONG BAD:{shouting over the noise} WHOA! CHECK OUT THOSE LIGHTS. THEY'RE FLASHING!

THE CHEAT:{questioning The Cheat noises, shouting}

STRONG BAD:{shouting} I SAID, CHECK OUT THE FLASHING LIGHTS!

THE CHEAT:{questioning The Cheat noises, shouting}

{The Cheat leaves the room.}

STRONG BAD:{shouting} HEY, WHERE ARE YOU GOING? WAIT UP!

{Strong Bad gets up and walks to follow The Cheat, until he reaches the end of his cord.}

STRONG BAD:{shouting} I'M GONNA NEED AN EXTENSION CORD!

{Strong Bad sits back in front of the Compy 386.}

STRONG BAD:{typing, shouting} Attention all interested ladies: Please have electrical sockets installed every 5 feet before inviting me over to your apartment or dormroom. So, I guess I'm awex— {The power goes out.} SOME IS THE REASON WHY!! {typing, despite power outage} Whoa. I guess these boots suck up a lot of energy. Maybe that's what "solid state" means. I suppose I can stop typing now. {stops typing} I'm gonna need some help finishing this email without power.

{Cut to the darkened basement. Strong Mad, Strong Sad, and The Cheat appear to be watching TV, and are laughing. Strong Bad walks in.}

STRONG BAD: What are you guys watching?

STRONG SAD: Shhh!

{Cut to the TV screen, where a picture of Andy Griffith's head is taped on. Strong Mad, Strong Sad, and The Cheat start laughing again.}

STRONG BAD:{offscreen} You guys are watching a picture of Andy Griffith's head taped to a TV?

{Cut back to the view of the couch. Homestar walks in.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Hey, has it started yet? I brought some popcorn! {He produces a popcorn bag containing a bottle of Mountain Dew.} Dang, Strong Bad, I like your boots.

STRONG BAD: Look, I'm going to need some help finishing up this email. Will somebody give me a hand?

STRONG MAD: WHEN THIS IS OVER!!!

{Cut back to the Compy 386. We can hear that the boots are running again. Strong Sad is holding up a piece of black paper in front of the monitor, which he lowers to reveal Strong Bad's "typed" text as Strong Bad is typing.}

STRONG BAD:{typing, shouting} Well, whatever your name was, the boots are back in action, and so am I. I can already tell they're gonna be a hit when I wear them to da club {pronounced as before} this weekend. The ladies can't resist flashing lights and an obnoxiously loud hum! {stops typing} All right, Strong Mad! Go!

{The Paper comes down with Strong Mad producing the sound effect. Cut back from Strong Bad's desk to see Strong Mad holding The Cheat upside-down over the Compy 386, with The Cheat holding the paper in his hands. The extra plug has been burnt. Strong Sad is holding the black piece of paper he used to obscure Strong Bad's text, and Homestar is wrapped in an extension cord leading from Strong Bad's boots elsewhere. A few seconds later, Strong Bad starts speaking}

STRONG BAD: Way to go, guys! I doubt anyone could tell the difference between a regular email and this unplugged email. Now keep holdin' it. Nobody move! Gonna be a long week!

At the end, click on either of Strong Bad's boots to see Strong Bad and The Cheat at Club Technochocolate.

{Strong Bad and The Cheat are at Club Technochocolate. Strong Bad dancing wearing his 'lectric boots near an outlet. The boots are making their usual loud humming noise. The Cheat is standing nearby plugging his ears with a couple of glowsticks.}

STRONG BAD: All right, The Cheat! Let's keep this party movin'! On to the next club!

{Strong Bad unplugs his boots and waddles offscreen.}

Also at the end, click on the extension cord to see what the 'Lectric Boots are plugged into.

{Cut to The King of Town's castle. An extension cord can be seen running from a sparking plugin out a window and into the distance. A sign has been placed near the plugin reading "auxilliary food-related thing. DO NOT UNPLUG!" The King of Town is standing nearby holding a piece of paper.}

Solid state refers to transistor electronics, vs. old vacuum tube or mechanical technology. In the '50s through the mid-'80s (the boots appearing to have come from the '70s), manufacturers would stamp "solid state" on their various devices, signifying that they were "state-of-the-art", tube-less electronics. These so-called "Solid State" boots apparently use a large and noisy vacuum cleaner motor, which runs contrary to the concept of solid state technology.

In the Technochocolate Easter egg, The Cheat appears to be plugging his ears with the glowsticks, which can give us a rough estimated location of his ears beneath all that fur.

Even though only one of Strong Bad's boots is plugged in, both boots work.

During the unplugged email, there are burn marks around the free socket under his desk... It seems that when the boots "fused," the plug actually melted and/or caught on fire.

Although there are burn marks around the extra plug under Strong Bad's desk after he blows the power, there are no marks around the plug at Technochocolate when he blows the power there.

At the end, when the gang are maintaining the "unplugged email", Strong Bad remarks that it is going to be a long week. It turned out to be four weeks until the next email, montage.

Viewing the Flash file shows Homestar sitting down fully on the floor, but he does not seem to have a bottom, as his legs bend up into his shirt.

Strong Bad's boots stop making noises in the end even though the lights are flashing.

In the Club Technochocolate scene, the Cheat's glowsticks do not actually glow - when the power goes out, they are lit the same as the surrounding area. They do seem to have a "glowing effect" around them even so.

If you view an Easter egg and wait, Strong Bad will repeat his "long week" statement and Homestar and Strong Sad will sing the song again.

The power cord is initially on the right boot when The Cheat first plugs it in. Then, when the boots are plugged into the extension cord the cord is on the left boot. Finally, in the Easter egg at Club Technochocolate, the cord is back on the right boot.

In the Easter egg in the King of Town's castle hall, Strong Bad has misspelled "auxiliary" as "auxilliary" on his sign.

MIKE: Ryan, um, does our video editing and made, he made this DVD that you're watching. And Jonathan made that game that you were probably playing on our website earlier.

JONATHAN: Directly before watching this DVD.

MIKE: That's right. And directly after. Um...

JONATHAN: SimCity.

MIKE: And so...

JONATHAN: Yeah, I made SimCity myself.

{Everyone laughs}

JONATHAN: With these guys. I'm from Massachusetts. Yeah, Mass!

MIKE: Where are you from, Ry?

RYAN: Uhhhhh... Little Virginia, little Florida.

MIKE: Little Columbus, Georgia. Right?

RYAN: Little, Columbus, Georgia. That's uh, interesting place.

MIKE: Yeah?

RYAN: I like your boots.

MIKE: Yeah, we had some...

{Jonathan laughs}

JONATHAN: What is Ol' Fatty's?

MIKE: What?

JONATHAN: Ol' Fatty's!

RYAN: Hey is that from giracer?

MIKE: I don't know where that's from.

RYAN: Ol' Fatty's? And they're purring there.

MIKE: They're whisper quiet.

RYAN: I like it when you draw people like that. On your kids' books and your magazines.

MIKE: Matt drew those. Those are definitely Matt's style.

RYAN: This is about to get real loud.

MIKE: Yeah, we should talk loud now, guys.

{Everybody raises their voices}

RYAN: Yeah.

JONATHAN: Can you hear me? What's the game of the day?

MIKE: Uhhhhhhhh...

RYAN: Death Track.

JONATHAN: Death Track.

MIKE: Death Track was a great game. It was a racing game where you had to shoot, uh, a futuristic racing game where you had to shoot other cars. Activision. Activision or Dynamix, I'm not sure which.

JONATHAN: It's weird that Activision and Electronic Arts are still around. They're like the kings!

MIKE: Activision is older than Electronic is older than Electronic, well I guess that Electronic Arts is pretty old. But Activision made Atari games in 1982.

RYAN: Yeah.

MIKE: Good for them. People got confused why he started yelling when it got dark.

RYAN: I got, I'm confused Mike.

MIKE: Well its sort of like, if you're, ummm, pulling a really heavy wagon, and then someone takes all the weight out of the wagon, you're pulling at the same, and you just start running forward.

JONATHAN: It's like a record stopping too. It just gets loud.

RYAN: Sorry, I was listening to you, but I turned to see Andy Griffith taped to the TV. And it was a little bit strange.

MIKE: So, that is from our cousin Jim. One of the many things we've stolen from him. There was this family, he claimed, that uh, that lived near him that didn't have a working TV and just taped a picture of Andy Griffith's head to the TV. Yet another example of Matt and I just stealing bits of our friends' and relatives' everyday lives.

JONATHAN: What about Lincoln version?

MIKE: Lincoln version we thought of.

RYAN: It's a good bit. You gotta, gotta, a lot of good bits.

MIKE: Do a bit Ryan. Hurry up.

RYAN: How about them boots, eh? They're flashin, and stuff...

MIKE: That's a good bit. How long does this thing go on for before the email ends?